{"id":2519718,"date":"2025-05-08T14:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2519718\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:41:16","slug":"trump-downplays-europe-role-as-he-unveils-wwii-victory-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2519718\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump downplays Europe role as he unveils WWII &#8216;Victory Day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AFP047368_00.pre.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t      US President Donald Trump downplayed the role of European countries in World War II on Wednesday as he formally designated May 8 as a day to celebrate victory over Nazi Germany.<br \/>  The victory was mostly accomplished because of us, like it or not, Trump said at the White House shortly after issuing a proclamation on the new Victory Day.<br \/>  It was American tanks and ships and trucks and airplanes and service members that vanquished the enemy 80 years ago this week. Without America, the Liberation would never have happened.<br \/>  Trump had announced his intention to rename May 8 earlier this week, noting that unlike much of Europe his country had no day to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.<br \/>  Trump said he also planned to establish a separate Victory Day for World War I &#8212; and claimed US credit for ending that conflagration too.<br \/>  Without us those wars would not have been won, he said.<br \/>  Trump&#8217;s comments came despite the fact that many European allies suffered far more casualties and devastation than the United States in the two global conflicts.<br \/>  The United States suffered significant losses after joining World War II in 1941, with more than 400,000 service members killed, and played a crucial role in the D-Day landings and defeat of Adolf Hitler.<br \/>  The Soviet Union, of which Russia was the largest republic, suffered the most with more than 20 million killed.<br \/>  Britain lost 384,000 soldiers and 70,000 civilians in World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump downplayed the role of European countries in World War II on Wednesday as he formall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2519719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[389806],"tags":[188914,98706,528524,32077,939,1670,98751,73191,11802,200,125020,78392,6798,17757,7293,812,4817,3687,4313,31168,1712,345531,6330,784979,2722,11034,784980,1668,3843,13633,11786,3577,16899,21135,302851,2482,482,14115,577,1669],"class_list":{"0":"post-2519718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-jiji","10":"tag-topics","11":"tag-topix","12":"tag-939","13":"tag-1670","14":"tag-98751","15":"tag-73191","16":"tag-11802","17":"tag-200","18":"tag-125020","19":"tag-78392","20":"tag-6798","21":"tag-17757","22":"tag-7293","23":"tag-812","24":"tag-4817","25":"tag-3687","26":"tag-4313","27":"tag-31168","28":"tag-1712","29":"tag-345531","30":"tag-6330","31":"tag-784979","32":"tag-2722","33":"tag-11034","34":"tag-784980","35":"tag-1668","36":"tag-3843","37":"tag-13633","38":"tag-11786","39":"tag-3577","40":"tag-16899","41":"tag-21135","42":"tag-302851","43":"tag-2482","44":"tag-482","45":"tag-14115","46":"tag-577","47":"tag-1669"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114472739916252908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}